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Re: Kivio
by Oscar on Saturday 10/May/2008, @02:22
No "donate" button on koffice site? How about letting people give a few bucks every now and then and then use that money to keep devels motivated and perhaps even attract a few new ones?

Let KDE e.V. fund trips and such but let the project manager buy books/gifts/things to devels that he/she thinks should be encouraged somehow?

Just a thought, feel free to ignore.
I'd give a few bucks just for Kivio and Kplato.
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Re: Kivio
by anon on Sunday 11/May/2008, @22:38
A nice idea, but hard to implement. Accepting credit cards is expensive. Paypal is the best option, probably, except they're untrustworthy, and you're just as likely to have them freeze your account and money as you are to get anything. (http://paypalsucks.com for tales of woe)

I've seen people post their amazon wishlist or the like, and then you can buy things off there. That might be the easiest option. But not cash.
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  • Re: Kivio
    by Oscar on Sunday 11/May/2008, @23:50
    Seeing how KDE e.V. uses paypal perhaps koffice could too? While I understand that paypal isn't ideal by any means perhaps it could be sufficient?

    Or do it like you suggested, with wishlists and such. It would be nice to make sure that the project manager had some money to use for his/her developers though.

    Isn't there some kind of tipping jar software out there? I do think that it's easier to get 10 ppl to donate $10 than it is to get 1 person do donate $100, even if it is to buy a book of amazon.

    For now my paypal money (yes, I have a small amount) goes directly into KDE e.V. and those projects that have a paypal account.
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    • Re: Kivio
      by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 13/May/2008, @07:51
      If you paypal the KDE e.V. money and say it's a donation for KOffice it'll get spend on us :-). We are very fortunate as a project that we fall under the KDE e.V. umbrella: they handle all that kind of thing for us, and we get to spend way more money than we'd be able to spend on developer sprints, conferences and other fun stuff otherway.

      (Like, I've just come back from the Libre Graphics Meeting, for which the e.V. sponsored three KOffice developers travel and lodging. I'm going to write up a dot story tonight.)
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